The combined role of task, child’s age and individual differences in understanding decision processes
Journal Title: Judgment and Decision Making - Year 2014, Vol 9, Issue 3
Abstract
It is important to understand the impact of individual differences in decision making from childhood to adulthood. This cohort-based study extends our knowledge by comparing decision making of children across the age range of 8 to 17 years and their parents. Based on prior research and theory focusing on different types of framing effects, we uncover several key differences across ages, including levels of risk taking and sensitivity to expected value differences between risky and riskless choices. Furthermore, we find that measures such as Numeracy and Surgency help explain both age-related and individual differences on our tasks, especially for decisions involving risk. We discuss the role of diverse task measures in understanding how individual difference factors affect different aspects of decision making, including the ability and effort to process numerical information and the ability to suppress affective reactions to stimulus labels.
Authors and Affiliations
Irwin P. Levin, Elaine A. Bossard, Gary J. Gaeth and Haoyang Yan
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